Is Heaven beyond space and time?

Question

If Heaven exists beyond space and time, how do you measure when someone enters? And how do you know when you've enter? If there is no time, does that mean that everyone has always been there?

And if Heaven is just being with God, where is that exactly? Where IS God?

Relax, I'm just curious as to how people imagine heaven. I'm an atheist too :x

Answer 1

I think it is. I mean it's because. Hmmm??? Just give me a minute to think.

So if space and time are Just another second and I'll get this.

Okay...so Heaven represents being with god, so then in order to find God we would not be looking for a location, but some sort of experience that is beyond space and time???

I don't know...I give up.
Good question!

Answer 2

You've answered your question and don't realize it. Your questions are your answers. I was raised Roman Catholic, and received my BA in Geology and I've constantly questioned how the 2 could coexist (science and religion) I believe that none of the religions have it figured out yet and science while based in proven fact tells us to just believe when it comes to the big bang theory.

Here's my take on it The law of conservation loosely translates to "Energy and Matter can neither be created nor destroyed only transfered or transformed". Assuming this is true then where did the matter and energy come from in the first place?

And now let's look at God. Most religions at their core believe in one central Creator. Looking at all of the earthly things that exist alone and it's not hard to imagine someone or something at some point had a hand in the design of it all. But What? What could possibly come up with birds, lizards, flowers, love and war pestilence and poverty.

Maybe God exists beyond human understanding, conforming to no human laws. But maybe humans do conform to these laws. How hard is it for you to imagine that the devine energy that allows you to be who you are is actually a little peice of the energy of both your parents? How hard is it to imagine when you die the matter that makes up your body returns to the earth while your devine energy or spirit returns to the Universal Collective or God as most people refer to Her?

Don't waste your time here contemplating time or even heaven for that matter. Focus on right now. What can I do right now to make my life or the life of others better? Then do it. We all are prone to make mistakes and most of us correct them, but worrying about anything, getting angry or mad, these are all wasted moments. Enjoy it while you're here, because the one thing I am certain of is that at some point this ride called life ENDS.

Answer 3

The movie Event Horizon had a similar idea - that hell was an actual place you could (accidentally) reach, once you had an interdimensional spaceship drive! The idea of heaven as an actual place is kind of flawed. Our ancestors associated it with the sky because it seemed wide, free, and pure. Our language of "the heavens" and "celestial" things testify to that as well. But if you're asking Where heaven is, you're pushing it, because if you give it a place in the multiverse (outside this pocket inflating universe, but separate from it), you open it up to the possibility of scientific testing. One day we might actually probe into other spatial dimensions. But these religious concepts will forever evade attempts to pin down their actual physical existence anywhere (you might be able to guess why). What is heaven supposed to mean to you? Hope for the afterlife, belief in ultimate justice, etc. etc. Heaven is what we consider to be a virtual space - something that has some of the qualities of being a space, but is not a real one. I hope that what you were raised to believe never stops your willingness to question, and to probe into what you can accept as the truth about things.

Answer 4

Well apparently there are three heavens. Don't ask me im still leanring the subject ill explain it when i get hte answers. It said God sits on the third heaven or highest heaven. Ok, it also said God created earth in 6 days. Time is measured by mass velocity and space. What is 6 days to him isn't six days to us. If he sits on the third heaven and he made the world in his six days then most likely heaven is out side of our space and time. In the bible it says our last breathe here on earth is our first in heaven. Granted that your going. I'm not sure what heaven isexactly. But in the bible it's described as aplace where the roads are made out of hte most rare materials and the walls are gold or someting like that. Hope i answered your question.

Answer 5

Wow, this is a deep question.

I am afraid I cannot give you much of an answer. I think God is everywhere. I look at the sun rising, I listen to birds, look at little lizards running around etc, and I believe.

About the whole heaven thing, I do not know. Know at least that you are not the only one struggling with these questions.

Answer 6

Good questions.... My thoughts are that heaven isn't beyond anything except beyond belief just as all the other religions which claim there is an after-life. What silly nonsense. Not living, weather it is before life or after life, is just that: NOT LIVING. There is not a single iota of truth to the idea that one can cease existing and yet exist nonetheless...

What a load of tripe.!

((((( r u randy? )))))
.

Answer 7

All that we know about heaven is what God has told us in the Bible. Most of the things you are asking I don't think anyone knows. We will have to wait. Humans are not timeless, and so they have not been there always. Humans who believe in Christ go there when they die, and no humans were able to go there before Christ died. Sorry, there is not uch more information about the actual place.

Answer 8

You are a mortal being, a matter that needs space and has weight, a visible cohesive complex molecular structure that is growing in size.
God, spirit, angels, heaven and hell existence are in spiritual world. They are invisible...but becoming visible when God wants it to be. No need to look for it, it will be delivered to you when you are deserving to see. Don`t worry about the door, you can`t slip in there without God`s knowledge, because God is All-Knowing.
You`ve heard lots of stories:
- seeing an angel, ghosts, dead spirits, demon,
- when you have extra gift of 6th sense,
- when you know how to meditate deeply to travel to different level of subconsciousness and see for yourself the different planes in our world,
- when you witness having near death experience to see for yourself beyond this visible world occurrences, and
- when you are highly favored by the Almighty Father (like St. Paul, etc) who was brought somewhere (while alive, on trance or asleep mode) to see heaven and hell, so to witness to the world that it is just true (God,salvation,heaven,hell).
My advice for you is...there are millions of proofs & reasons of God`s existence, their existence is not for Him to be worshipped by you alone but always...to save and bring you back to His holiness/kingdom after your vacations here on earth.
All you have to do is just accept, recognize and humbled yourself that you are created by Him...(do you think you exist because you just like to exist?)...and be grateful that you are one of the lucky individual who were born in this world and able to see the beauty of this world, possessing the intellect that others may don`t have, and able to witness the development of sophisticated gadget for us to communicate right now.

Answer 9

Only God knows

Answer 10

The domain of an extra-universal deity would necessarily itself be extra-universal. As to "always", well always is itself a temporal word with temporal implications. I realize we struggle with the language for a way of existing we cannot even conceive of, but even 'always' does not really cast the sense of it. Without time truly is without time.